On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:46 PM, xingqiu yuan wrote:
> Hi
>> I found that use of mpi_allreduce to calculate the global maximum and
> minimum takes very long time, any better alternatives to calculate the
> global maximum/minimum values?
If only the rank 0 process needs to know the global max and min you can use MPI_Reduce() rather than MPI_Reduceall() which will substantially reduce the communication time. The difference is that with MPI_Reduce() the result of the reduction is not communicated back to the other ranks.
charlie
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